Human Paleopathology : Current Syntheses and Future Options PDF
by Donald J. Ortner, Arthur C. Aufderheide
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In 1985 Dr. Pavao Rudan asked one of us (DJO) to organize a symposium on paleopathology for the International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, planned for July 1988 in Zagreb, Yugoslavia.
This invitation was intriguing for many reasons but principally because we felt that research in paleopathology had reached a plateau.
In our opinion the time had arrived to evaluate research conducted thus far as a basis for suggesting what needed to be done to continue the development of research in the discipline.<br><br>In 1985 initial invitations for papers for the symposium went out to a large and diverse group of leading scholars in paleopathology.
The response was remarkably supportive and definite plans were made.<br><br>A commensal scholarly/scientific relationship in paleopathology between anthropologically and medically trained researchers has existed for many decades.
It clearly was in the interest of good science to have both these disciplines involved in planning the symposium.
Arthur C. Aufderhcide, M.D., a medically trained pathologist, became coorganizer of the symposium and coeditor of the proceedings in the early stages of planning.
Donald J.Ortner, Ph.D., a physical anthropologist, provided the anthropological perspective in the organization and editorial process.<br><br>Objectives for the symposium included: (1) review of the current status of research in paleopathology, (2) an effort to explore what can and cannot presently be said about paleopathology, (3) the contributions of paleopathology to our understanding of the history and evolution of disease, (4) an effort to explore the possibility of paleoepidemiology, (5) an attempt to establish criteria that would permit comparative research in paleopathology, (6) an effort to establish the antiquity of modern diseases,(7) an exploration of what paleopathology could contribute in an ideal research context, (8) ways to achieve the above objective, and (9)
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